Blatant incivility, complete disregard for facts and bombastic rhetoric are hallmarks of President Donald Trump.

Yet even those un-presidential parameters were not enough to contain Trump this past week. He made multiple comments that raise troubling questions about his commitment to deep-rooted U.S. allies, trust of his own executive branch, and whether he is more supportive of deadly dictatorships than free and open democracies.

The credible path forward for him is to act (not talk) in ways that clearly show he supports NATO and European allies, stands firmly behind his administration — especially intelligence operations — and immediately stops the false equivalencies he's projecting involving Russia and the United States.

As for his supporters — specifically U.S. Sixth District Rep. Tom Emmer and other elected officials and candidates at all levels — their continued silence about Trump's supposed diplomacy amounts to supporting his views.

Voters must demand Emmer and others break their silence and explain exactly why they would not condemn Trump for a disaster-filled week that truly only made Russia great again.

Trump's comments supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin at the conclusion of their meeting in Helsinki are easily the most shocking statements he has made since entering politics.

They might even be the most embarrassing comments from any U.S. president — even Richard Nixon's "I'm not a crook" and Bill Clinton's "what the meaning of is is."

Equally disturbing, Trump's attempt to walk them back — like so many of his previous, ahem, clarifications — rang undeniably hollow.

For starters, it took 27 hours to make the statement. And when he did, Trump undercut what was left of his credibility.

In reading a formal statement saying he accepts "our intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election took place” he ad-libbed "Could be other people also. A lot of people out there.” And then he repeated his oft-mentioned assertion that there was no collusion.

That interjection is why his assertion he misspoke — saying he used "would" when he should have said "would not" — lacks credibility. And it was yet another vintage display of Trump's ego-driven, I-really-did-mean-what-I-said mentality.

See also his comments about the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, the Barack Obama birth conspiracy and attacking reporter Megyn Kelly after she moderated a presidential debate.

An oversized puppet depicting the image of President Donald Trump that is labeled "Putin's Puppet" is among a crowd of hundreds of people participating in a national vigil "to demand democracy" and to "confront corruption" on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House in Washington, on July 18, 2018.(Photo: Michael Reynolds, epa-efe)

Like those, his clarification this week only served to reinforce — not reverse — his original message.

That's why Americans must question Trump's loyalty, not to mention his honesty. It also shows why Trump must stop talking and instead start acting in ways that prove his top priority is championing America's interests.

Remember, in the days leading up to the Putin meeting, Trump essentially attacked many of America's longest-standing and most loyal allies in meeting with NATO and European leaders.

In the days since Helsinki, it became known he at least considered a request from Putin to question Americans (including at least one high-profile diplomat) who Russia does not like in exchange for allowing America to question Russians indicted here for tampering with U.S. elections.

And, of course, amid the continual bipartisan firestorm over his actions, he again trotted out his tiresome claims about media coverage. Only his most diehard loyalists buy that line. And this time those did not even include Fox News.

Americans may have become accustomed to Trump's blatant incivility, complete disregard for facts and bombastic rhetoric. The past week, though, his un-presidential, unpatriotic words lowered the bar even more.